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Post from sketch show entertaining great man in audience (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

snail mail

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'post' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'great man in audience' is the wordplay.
'great' becomes 'snail' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'man' becomes 'male'.
'in audience' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'male' is a homophone of 'mail'.
'snail'+'mail'='SNAIL MAIL'

'from sketch show entertaining' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for snail mail that I've seen before include "old-fashioned correspondence?" , "Conventional (slow) post (informal)" , "Ordinary post" , "The conventional postal service" , "Modern jargon for letter post, mollusc-slow compared to electronic transport" .)

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